hanshotfirst1138

Um, I did? Hence why I'm the one who posted it?

Oh yes, beautiful women dangle off my arms :-p. The last party I went to was a graduation part years ago.

You'll be what?

OK, maybe I phrased it wrong, but David Foster Wallace said of post-modernism: "The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years. We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back. I mean, what's wrong with us? Are we total cowards? Is there something about authority and limits we actually need? And then the uneasiest feeling of all, as we start gradually to realise that parents in fact aren't ever coming back. Which means we're going to have to be the parents."

I don't mind it per se, but the Spielberg and Lucas generation made moves based on the films they loved, the Michael Bay generation emulates Spielberg, eventually it looks like films about films about comic books about films about TV about films. Craven had something interesting to say about the importance of stories. Whedon and Godard are smart-asses, and the movie feels smug and shallow to me. That doesn't mean it isn't fun in places, but it thinks it's cleverer than it is, IMO.

Jay G.

Unicorns are nocturnal creatures, thus the females are night mares.

Seriously though, I just took it to be that the group that put together the cabin had gone around the world and trapped all these mystical and fantastic creatures, and they must have grabbed up "good" mystical creatures as well as "evil" ones.

Or maybe the unicorn was evil. They had an evil merman too, and merpeople aren't typically portrayed as out-and-out evil.

Jay G.

Found this great article about the making of the credit sequence for the film:
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/t...-in-the-woods/

dekker

I watched this last night. Fantastic! I gave it four and a half.

GoldenJCJ

This is available on Netflix streaming. I thought it was fun but it could have been 15 minutes longer to focus on the kids at the cabin a little more. I think it would have been more effective had we gotten a little more character development.

Also, reading through this thread I guess it's how it was theatrically but the night scenes were REALLY dark. I could hardly make out half the deaths or the redneck zombies.

Fun twist on the genre.

Troy Stiffler

Thanks for the heads up. Haven't watched it since it was in theaters.

Abob Teff

Since robots began dreaming of electric sheep ...

Just watched this last night. I loved it for all the reasons I typically hate horror films.